Lab flu may not aid vaccines

Nature 482, 7384 (2012). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/482142a

Author: Declan Butler

Game-changing vaccine technologies are needed to strengthen global pandemic defences.

Human experiments: First, do harm

Nature 482, 7384 (2012). http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/482148a

Author: Matthew Walter

In the 1940s, US doctors deliberately infected thousands of Guatemalans with venereal diseases. The wound is still raw.

A tasselled wobbegong shark has been photographed eating another shark for the first time

Half-moth, half machine, a new generation of remote-controlled insects could one day be used as spies

All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: US bat killer strikes in Europe and anonymous leaks emails from Syrian President's office

Our survey of UK forensic scientists reveals that many are concerned that closure of the Forensic Science Service will lead to miscarriages of justice

White nose syndrome has been reported in a single bat in the Czech Republic, but the case seems to be an exception in an area where most bats remain immune

Watch a nematode wiggle through a dense obstacle course in an experiment probing the mechanics of its motion

Emails are leaked as the government continues its bombardment in the Syrian city of Homs

One of the rarest Archaeopteryx fossils disappeared after its irascible owner died. Was it stolen, is it buried with him, or something else?

For the first time, the vast lake more than 3 kilometres below Antarctica's ice has been reached by drill

Another heart-wrenching, whale saving movie, Big Miracle retells the story of the 1988 efforts to help gray whales escape ice and reach the open sea

The expiry date on Penny Sarchet's student ID card used to seem impossibly far away but now her PhD is coming to an end. What advice can she pass on?

Watch a spherical flame burn during a fire-fighting experiment aboard the International Space Station

In The Creative Destruction of Medicine, geneticist Eric Topol argues for personalised medicine

Right whales had lower levels of stress hormones when noisy shipping ground to a halt after 9/11

A small satellite that will measure whether Earth drags space-time as it spins will soon launch from Kourou, French Guiana, on a new European Space Agency rocket

From moon rocks to a sea monster's skin, some of science's most prized finds are lost – and with them, secrets of life on Earth and where humans came from

Three-quarters of the fish in the sea have a freshwater ancestor. The finding highlights how important rivers and lakes are as a source of new species

A tarsier could be screaming its head off and you would never know it. Uniquely among primates, some of its calls are made up of pure ultrasound